JMC Jams S2

Well folks, it's the end of the Spring Semester and our intrepid explorers are setting off on their next life mission. Joining me on this episode are Madison Wilber, Broadcast Journalism '25, and Octavio Franklin, Advertising '25. We talk about highlights, inspirations, next steps and interesting stuff that they've been up to. This is also the Season Finale for Season 2 .... wow. There'll be a spe...

It's the end of the academic year and time to wave off our latest batch of graduating students. But we won't let them go without celebrating their successes. Belen Moreno joins me to talk about our Graduating Students' Showcase. Let's call it "Reach For The Stars #1". We chat about what we are planning to do, what we want to celebrate and why it matters thgat students show up. This year we have th...

Did you know we have a Broadcast Meteorology Minor in SJSU? And that our Journalism students take it? And that they apply that to their broadcast program? Update News, our weekly broadcast news show includes a weather feature and this is the result of a collaboration between JMC and the world renowned Department of Meteorology and Climate Science. In this episode we chat with Rob Mayeda. Rob is a...

I love how our students are so active in so many extracurricular activities that broaden their perspectives and their skill sets. Join me as I chat to Sendy Tapia, one of our PR Majors with amazing stories to tell. Stories about her work in magazines, and how her writing is featured in an anthology of women Xicana writers/poets/storytellers and the book tour coming to campus THIS WEEK!

Sports are a big deal on college campuses. From high flying athletics programs down to club sports, our athletes are critical in our campus identity. JMC has its fair share of student athletes and we also cover campus sports in The Spear magazine, in the Daily and on Update news. We have a Sports Journalism minor and some of our athletes go on to hit the big time. Others use their experiences in s...

Sometime in the previous Jams Season we chatted to Rowena Ulbrick from Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia about an upcoming Creative Jam between our two institutions. Well, the time has come and we are preparing ourselves for the Jam! Associate Professor Tina Korani is our SJSU Jammer on the ground and we talk about the event, Adobe, and all things AI. Tina is a veteran of...

It's an annual extravaganza! Every Spring Semester the Spartan Ad Club goes to NYC. This year, led by Faculty Advisor Belen Moreno, our students visited six agencies across Manhattan and Brooklyn. They are back - inspired, invigorated and defrosted from the February East Coast temps! Packing so many industry visits into a three day week is exhausting but very rewarding. In this episode we hear fro...

Sometimes I students take an interest and a class project and elevate it to new heights. Our Advertising Portfolio class always includes a Passion Project as one of the key assignments. Student Simon Haupt took his passion for music and turned it into a review site on Instagram. He talks about his favorite albums and offers insights behins the music. With the help of friends and fellow advertising...

It really takes a village ... in order to give our students a head start, we develop collaborations and build relationships with our related industries. The J-program is working on a series of collaborative efforts with, primarily, San Jose Spotlight, SJ's leading not-for-profit independent news outlet. In this episode I chat with Ramona Giwargis co-founder of San Jose Spotlight and alum of our pr...

The Spartan Daily is one of the most awarded campus newspapers in the workld ever. Well, most likely. It's certainly award winning, always bringing home prizes from the various student media competitions in California and beyond. Our students win big for their stories, photos, editorials, and design. Of course, their talent ultimately bring these accolades to campus, but it's the hard work of Prof...

Episode two is a call to action, an advance notice of a new speaker series that launches this week. Our advertising program never sits still. Always eager to embrace emerging technologies into the creative workflow. A new weekly series of speakers from the worlds of both advertising and tech will present how AI and other technologies are impacting on creative practice and the creative industries....

We're back! New semester, new season of JMC Jams. This episode invites Juan and Ernie into the studio to chat about the last season and to talk about some of the fab things we have planned for this semester. Ease yourselves in, there's episodes every week this season.